Derek Lindsay Email & Phone Number

Marysville, Oh, Us

Honda R&D Americas, Inc.

Automobile Interiors Project Leader for Full-Model Change and Minor-Model Change Programs: scheduling, reporting, delegating tasks, prioritizing tasks to meet deadlines and targets.Group Leader: providing regular feedback to direct-reports, assigning training plans, corrective actions, hiring events, resume screening, interviewing.Technical Expert: Specialist in seating and restraints, reviewing layouts made by designers for optimal weight, cost, tooling, compliance with design guidelines, regulations.Research Chief: promoted new technology research within the Interior department, presented regular updates of development status and research budgets to executives.Design Engineer: Responsible for seat and belt component and complete seat design including electro-mechanical systems, stampings, injection molded plastics, wire harnesses, ECUs, switches, springs, sintered and machined gearing, etc.

Kinston, Nc

As a senior engineer I was responsible for designing components for household appliances: control panels, circuit boards, LED displays, membrane switches, vinyl and nylon coated wire baskets, injection molded parts, and graphics.Worked with product stylists to generate 3D data that enhanced the visual appeal and ergonomics of the products. Created 3D solid CAD models of components and 2D detail drawings with design for assembly and GD&T. Ordered and tested prototypes. Confirmed quality of pre-production parts (PPAP).Supported trial builds on the manufacturing lines. Regularly reviewed assembly line as part of root cause analysis, assembly efficiency improvements, and cost reduction investigations.

Raymond, Oh

Seat Chief: Lead a small team of design engineers and contingents in the design of seat and belt sets for new model vehicle developments. Managed suppliers including holding regular update meetings, negotiating cost, organizing prototype builds, kicking off tooling for mass production after confirming prototype test results. Kept a running total of cost estimates of all responsible parts and held 3-party meetings with supplier and purchasing to negotiate reasonable costs. Maintained schedule, cost, investment, and weight targets for the programs.Design Engineer: Used CATIA to design 3D models and 2D drawing of seat and belt components. Designed injection molded plastics, stampings, wire harnesses, welded assemblies, electromechanical mechanisms. Worked with test groups to ensure designs reflected comfort, durability, noise, and safety targets.

Huntsville, Alabama

Designed, assembled, and ran equipment for experiments in regenerative heat exchange and fluid dynamics. Operated high vacuum chambers and equipment: vacuum gages, thermocouples, power supplies, roughing pumps, turbo-molecular pumps and cryo-pumps.Created detailed drawings and assisted engineering staff with their duties.

Huntsville, Alabama

Assisted engineers on military projects including vehicle displays, field test units, military service and support vehicles, and hydrogen sensors. Designed test equipment console panels and assembled wire-harnesses for use with military electronics.Specific tasks: hydrogen sensor mount bracketry for submarine battery rooms and battle tank service truck ("Expando-Van") test panels and harnesses.Edited MIL-STD-100 drawings and wrote engineering changes.

Redstone Arsenal, Hunstville, Al

Worked with engineering staff on prototype missile launching vehicle construction and improvement projects. Was assigned to Chaparral Missile Project Office and worked alongside Loral Aeroneutronic staff.Created and edited budget and schedule spread sheets, wrote engineering changes, edited drawings.Researched interchangeability of standard mil-spec parts: bolts, screws, washers, and nuts.Edited MIL-STD-100 drawings using CAD software.

Athens, Alabama

Assisted full-time plant maintenance and engineering staff.Assembled plant equipment including pneumatic stakers, conveyors, and calibration tanks for the thermostat assembly line.Assisted in the installment of new product assembly lines: conveyors, broaches for solenoids, etc.Cleaned and repainted transfer and progressive stamping presses and other equipment.

Huntsville, Alabama

Selected for and participated in a project between AIDT/ACATT and the University of Alabama in Huntsville where twelve graduating high-school honor students were given a hands-on education in the application of advanced computing, product development, and manufacturing technology prior to entering college and receiving education in hands-off theory.Curriculum included PLC programming, process flow software for industrial engineering, computer aided design/engineering/manufacturing software, machining center programming, robot programming and uses, computerized inventory, robotic warehousing, stereo-lithography, and general PC and Macintosh computer software.Received a certificate for completing coursework and final project in the application of stereo-lithography in prototype development cycles.

Bachelor'S Of Science In Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, 3.74/4.00

Activities and Societies: Honors Program, Tau Beta Pi, SAE

Advanced Diploma

Activities and Societies: National Beta Club

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